Watch the Tape is a new Raptors HQ feature that will teach you absolutely nothing about basketball, how to watch it better, or how it’s properly played. It WILL take you on a tour of some of the finest, and most random Raptors related (and sometimes adjacent) material out there.
I wasn’t quite sure what to think the first time I watched the video that ran before the Raptors game against the Boston Celtics last Friday. So, as I am wont to do, I decided to watch it approximately 25 times with a note-pad — and a gaping 1,800-word hole inside my chest:
00:00-0:17 - We get the famous audio from the Kawhi Leonard press-conference where Masai pushes back hard against the whole line of thinking that trading for Kawhi “means” anything beyond getting a good basketball player.